Britt tells the story of The Lumen House in long form for the first time: how a career selling new construction homes, then developer finance, then boutique hotels and spas, turned into a wedding venue outside Charlotte with a greenhouse at the center of it.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why couples always ask "why did you build this?"
01:47 Selling new construction homes out of college
04:06 Pivoting into boutique hotels and spas
06:16 Designing so a five hour reception isn't one room
07:09 Her first house, and Charlotte's third Airbnb
09:08 A hammock, a skydiving field, and the greenhouse idea
10:43 Meeting Jonathan and deciding it was now or never
11:59 Two years hunting for land with no power lines
13:05 Why banks decide what buildings look like
14:54 The greenhouse never appraised
15:36 "Oh, like a barn?"
19:22 Building a business with your husband
21:41 The arches everyone told her not to do
23:10 What still scares her
25:05 Why the drive is the point
27:34 How to choose when you're touring five venues
30:03 The moment in a wedding day that gets her every time
31:56 If you're on the fence
She and venue manager Mikayla Tate get into meeting Jonathan, the two years they spent hunting for land with no power lines running through it, and the fight to keep the greenhouse and the arches when everyone kept asking whether she was building a barn.
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Bridal BFF comes from The Lumen House, a wedding venue just outside Charlotte. Each week, owner Britt Loukos and some of the top experts in the wedding industry tell you what they'd tell a friend over coffee: how the money works, what to ask before you sign anything, and the parts of planning nobody warns you about.
New episodes every Wednesday.
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